May 31, 2016

Readme file for: U.S. Food Aid and Infant Mortality Rates: An Instrumental Variables Approach By Victoria Greene and advised by Lewis Davis

The replication folder contains two data files, three programs, and the paper:

1. FAid_Final.dta - this file was downloaded in October 2015 from https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.104.6.1630, it contains raw data from U.S. Food Aid and Civil Conflict by Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian (American Economic Review 2014, 104(6): 1630-1666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.6.1630)

2. wdidataMay2016.dta - this file contains data downloaded from WDI using Stata's wbopendata command documented in importing data.do 

3. importing data.do - this program loads in and merges the two datasets above, it changes variable names, and limits variables to those used for this paper, it creates rawdata.dta

4. creating varables.do - this program takes rawdata.dta and creates additional variables used for the regressions, it creates processed_data.dta

5. creating tables.do - this program generates word files that make up tables 2-8 from the paper (An additional observation is included in the replication regressions; therefore, results in tables will vary slightly from original results.)

6. US Food Aid and Infant Mortality Rates An Instrumental Variables Approach.docx  - the research paper


The replication should proceed by downloading FAid_Final.dta and wdidataMay2016.dta into Stata's working directory (or setting a working directory and downloading the files into that directory). Then programs should be run in the order they are listed above. Stata 14 was used for the analysis. Package outreg2 needs to be installed.


Any questions should be directed to Victoria Greene at greenev@union.edu
